Chicago PD Fans Are Livid After Halstead’s Bizarre Season 10 Exit

In true Dick Wolf fashion, eight years of character development were washed away in the blink of an eye. After saying goodbye to Voight at the airport, Jay is off to Bolivia with no goodbyes to the rest of his colleagues. “THIS IS NOT HOW IT ENDS,” @heavenzsecret tweeted after the final Halstead episode. “Jays exit from the show was terrible…. I expected a lot more drama and flare,” @kaseskamille added. Hailey shed only a few tears, but as the Twitter user said, it was not a very dramatic episode for an OG’s departure. 

“Jay forgot he’s married and didn’t bother to discuss with his wife before making a such a drastic, on the spot decision. Smdh,” @grios1979 said of Halstead’s odd behavior. “This is absolute bull. Jay would NEVER leave like this. You destroyed 10 years of growth in 3 episodes. Why do this? This is so rushed and so poorly written,” @always_wins added to the fire. We still don’t know why Jesse Lee Soffer exited “Chicago P.D.,” but with how weird his final episodes were, it doesn’t seem like this was a story that was in the works for some time. “I get Jay would break at some point but doing it the last 3 episodes makes no sense. Like he has been through worst. Why now?” @crazyforinfo asked. 

Plenty of “Chicago P.D.” fans opted to ignore their disappointment and thanked Soffer for his dedication to the series and praised his performance. Others hope to see him back down the line, hopefully reuniting with Hailey. A few fans also championed a spin-off with Jay in Bolivia, but we wouldn’t encourage anyone to get their hopes up on that end.